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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (31 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 567. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place to re-establish safe school transport for those attending special schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16481/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (31 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 577. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when all therapies will resume within special schools for those children who have high educational needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16563/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (31 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 634. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address correspondence regarding a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17397/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Maternity Benefit (31 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 653. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the maternity supports available for a person (details supplied) who works in academia but who does not qualify for any benefit including child benefit; the financial benefits that person is entitled to while on maternity leave; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16484/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (31 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 662. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of childcare workers in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment on a weekly basis from 21 December 2020 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16559/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Parental Leave (31 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 690. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to introduce paid leave for employees who suffer a miscarriage before 24 weeks before which there is currently no statutory paid leave for them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17398/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Domestic Violence Refuges Provision (31 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 695. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of women’s refuge centres nationwide and on a per capita basis; the amount of funding that has been provided for a women’s refuge for each county in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16482/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (31 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 1164. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the efforts undertaken by his Department to date to provide breast milk banks in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17399/21]

Family Leave and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: I move amendment No. 3: In page 6, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “Reporting 4. (1) The Minister shall, not later than six months after the passing of this Act, carry out a review of the operation of this Act. (2) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the Minister, as part of the review, shall— (a) conduct policy and budgetary analysis...

Family Leave and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: I move amendment No. 6: In page 16, line 34, to delete “2 years” and substitute “3 years”. If a parent wants to take this leave, they have two years in which to do so. We all recognise the past year up-ended everybody's lives. Families have had to undergo huge pressures and changes within their family systems that they never expected. This amendment...

Family Leave and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: I acknowledge this is an extension of the status quoas such. By extending it from one year to two, the Minister is acknowledging that Covid has really up-ended everything and made things difficult. This leave is for early days of bonding. By moving it to two years, the Minister is acknowledging that families need that flexibility, not necessarily for that initial bonding time but that they...

Family Leave and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: I will also be pressing my amendment. As part of the Opposition we are very limited in the amendments we can propose. We cannot, for example, make suggestions that place a charge on the Exchequer. This amendment relates only to the monitoring and assessment of legislation and policies being implemented. I have developed policies for the Australian Government and I know it is really...

Family Leave and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: I will speak to amendment No. 3, in which we outline a number of areas we think the Minister should report to the Dáil on in a number of months. It is good policy to have a review of this legislation because we need to understand how it impacts people and how it can be improved, so it is important that there is a continual review of the legislation that passes. This amendment contains...

Family Leave and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: The Social Democrats also welcome this Bill. It is an important step towards facilitating work-life balance and giving the supports families need to take care of their children. Many parents will breathe a sigh of relief when they see this Bill is before the Dáil and it is hoped they will soon see the effects of the legislation on the ground. Parents have been waiting for this for a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: I would like to follow on from the contribution of the leader of the Labour Party on vaccine distribution. We run a real risk of increasing competition between countries and countries' nationalism when it comes to the vaccination programme. We are not safe in this country until every country is safe, and we will not be free from Covid until every country in the world is free from Covid. We...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: Will the Taoiseach raise that with the EU and push for it at an EU level? It is important we show leadership and we ensure every country in the world, whether wealthy or not, has an opportunity to access vaccine.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (24 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 101. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to meet the target of 1 million electric cars by 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13251/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (24 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 109. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps his Department will take to ensure that all new cars will be electric by 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45097/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sustainable Development Goals (24 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 209. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when a draft of Ireland’s second national progress report on the sustainable development goals will be published; when a finalised document will be submitted to the United Nations in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13903/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EU Directives (24 Mar 2021)

Jennifer Whitmore: 210. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the revised EU Internal Electricity Market Directive 2019-944 and EU Renewable Energy Directive 2018-2001 will be transposed into Irish legislation; the process and format of transposition of provisions of both directives; the implications for failure to transpose by required deadlines; and if he will make a...